Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 6 Issue 1
Practical evidence for service improvement
Table of contents
Health Action Zones: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Health and Health Care?
Edward Peck, Richard PoxtonThis Paper Looks at Health Action Zones, to be established from April 1998 with the intention of moving towards prevention of illness and promotion of health. It suggests how…
Community Care for Older People: Taking the Broad View for Radical Change
Richard PoxtonThe Health and social care needs of older people cover a large number of different systems, resulting in inadequate priorities for their needs. There is no single acknowledged…
Assuring the Quality of Assessment and Care Management
Colin SlasbergThis Case Study sets out how a large social services department has been developing a strategy to assure the quality of its assessment and care management service. It draws on…
Client Feedback — Does it lead to Improved Services? Part I — Background and Development of the Measurement Tool
Gill LewinThis Case Study describes how Western Australia's largest home‐care organisation approached the task of obtaining feedback on its performance from its clients. The aim was to use…
Outlands: Five Years on
Sue Younger‐Ross, Tess LomaxThe ‘Outlands Pilot’ was a joint project set up in 1992 by Devon Social Services Department and the Health Authority. It offered an intermediate setting between hospital and home…
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1476-9018Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Axel Kaehne